Run the dishwasher
The dishwasher is one of the few household tasks that ends with a clear button, yet the path there involves many small decisions. What goes where, how much detergent, which cycle. The visual support below makes each step visible before the start.
♀Starting the dishwasher
A person with long white hair stands by an open dishwasher with dirty dishes and presses the start button.
♀Filling the dishwasher
A person with brown curly hair places plates and a cup into the bottom rack of a dishwasher.
♀Unloading the dishwasher
A person with brown curly hair takes plates and a cup out of the bottom rack of a dishwasher.
About this visual support
That button in the bottom right glows invitingly, but before a child reaches it, cutlery has to be sorted, plates angled, glasses placed without toppling, the right tab chosen and the cycle button pressed in the right order. More decisions than it looks, and every small one can stop the flow.
With the steps laid out as cards next to the machine, the task turns into a row of boxes instead of one big threshold. The child sees that cutlery has its basket, handles point down, the tab has its compartment. When all the boxes are ticked, the button is next, and that clarity about the ending is what often makes a child start at all.
A concrete tip: make the first picture show what does not go in, wooden knives and big pots. Then the child does not have to stop midway to ask. In the Routined app you can save the whole dishwasher flow and let it appear as a recurring evening task, so the steps grow familiar over time.